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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
Golda Meir
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Golda Meir
Age: 80 †
Born: 1898
Born: May 3
Died: 1978
Died: December 8
Former Prime Minister Of Israel
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
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Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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I have given instructions that I be informed everytime one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in themiddle of the night. When President Nasser leavesinstructions that he is to be awakened in the middleof the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there willbe peace.
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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
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The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
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Once in a Cabinet we had to deal with the fact that there had been an outbreak of assaults on women at night. One minister suggested a curfew women should stay home after dark. I said, 'But it's the men who are attacking the women. If there's to be a curfew, let the men stay home, not the women.
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Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.
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the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?
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I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
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If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.
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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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